Chronic venous insufficiency is a common condition that can make blood pool or collect in your lower legs. Here's what to know about the condition and how to assess your own risk.

Blood doping boosts athletic performance by increasing the number of red blood cells in the bloodstream. Blood doping is commonly associated with endurance sports such as cycling, distance running ...

Talk about a lonely hearts club. An unnamed woman from Guadeloupe has the rarest blood type on earth, to the extent that she’s only compatible with herself.

The American Red Cross is calling its annual statewide blood drive with WMUR a success. The nonprofit organization set a goal to collect 476 units of blood during the event, but exceeded it with ...

A team led by the University of Sydney has identified red blood cell rupture at dying endothelial sites as a primary driver of microvascular obstruction in COVID-19, bypassing the expected role of ...

The product contains hemoglobin molecules from expired donor blood, which are encapsulated in protective lipid shells to create artificial red blood cells.

Scientists have uncovered a new biological mechanism behind tissue and organ damage in low-oxygen conditions like heart attacks, strokes, and severe COVID-19. Bursting red blood cells—not ...

Red blood cell-derived extracellular vesicles in type 2 diabetes are actively taken up by the endothelium, transferring the enzyme arginase-1 and triggering oxidative stress. This mechanism helps ...

Quite often, blood cancer patients require the replacement of their blood stem cells in the bone marrow, the tissue producing blood cells where their cancer grows.

Noncancerous blood disorders include clotting disorders, bleeding disorders, various forms of anemia, and eosinophilic disorders.

Remote ischemic conditioning (RIC) is a simple and low‐cost intervention that is thought to increase collateral blood flow through the vasodilatory effects of nitric oxide (NO) produced by the ...

HSCs, found in bone marrow, have the capacity to differentiate into various blood cell types, including red blood cells, different white blood cells, and platelets.